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Justice: former judge and figure in the fight against corruption, Renaud Van Ruymbeke has died
Justice: former judge and figure in the fight against corruption, Renaud Van Ruymbeke has died
(franceinfo)
Renaud Van Ruymbeke died at the age of 71 on Friday May 10. This former magistrate, who became a figure in the fight against corruption through the cases he handled, received several high tributes.
The inflexible judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke, a magistrate often admired and sometimes criticized in the corridors of the Paris Courthouse, died on Friday May 10. 40 years of career and stubborn work against corruption and dirty money. His name will remain associated with the most sensitive political and financial affairs. He carried the spirit of independence of justice throughout his life.
A pugnacious and discreet man
Among the cases that have marked Renaud Van Ruymbeke’s career, we find for example the Urba file on the secret financing of the Socialist Party, the Taiwan frigates affair or even the investigations into Jérôme Cahuzac. The Minister of Justice praised the career of this pugnacious and discreet man. “He was someone who was just, who was uncompromising towards those who had not respected the law, he was not a vigilante“, said Éric Dupond-Moretti. He had hung up his magistrate’s robe five years ago.
